CHILDREN AND THE LAW
...Dependency Petitions
......Jurisdictional Hearing
.........Jurisdictional Grounds

• 300(a): Physical Abuse or Harm
• 300(a): Prenatal Conduct
• 300(b): Parental Neglect/Mental Illness
• 300(c): Emotional Abuse/Damage
• 300(d): Sexual Abuse
• 300(e): Severe Physical Abuse Under 5
• 300(f): Causing Death of Another
• 300(g): Absent Parent/Abandonment
• 300(h): Freed for Adoption
• 300(i): Cruelty
• 300(j): Abuse of Sibling